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Re: Neutral Safety switch
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Originally Posted by whitedog76
Just a thought, use a NO relay on the brake pedal switch. Activate it off a brake circuit, use the common/NO contacts on the starter circuit. Truck will only start if your foot is on the brake pedal.
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That will work, At least to keep the truck from starting unintentionally. It would be like the later stick shift rigs that you have to push the clutch pedal on to activate the clutch safety switch.
As far as the push button start, does it have two wires to it? Hot feed in and a wire to the solenoid or does it go to ground like older Ford starter buttons do.
If has a hot wire in and the other wire goes to the starter solenoid just run that wire to the Neutral switch and run a wire from the neutral switch. Most likely cutting the wire that runs from the solenoid at the right length to put a terminal on and connect to the neutral switch and making up a new wire (no splices in the wire) to run from the pushbutton to the neutral switch. Spliced wires always seem to be where electriclal issues start later. That would be neat and orderly and shouldn't take but a few minutes and a piece of wire and three terminals to do. Unless there is enough extra wire to just cut the wire and put terminals on the ends and connect to the neutral switch.
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